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by mrgriscom
1767 days ago
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"The provisions of this Agreement requiring disclosure and assignment of Inventions to Google do not apply to any invention that I have developed entirely on my own time without using any of Google Property (as defined below) or Google Confidential Information, except for those inventions that either (i) relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to Google’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of Google or (ii) result from any work or services that I performed for Google." |
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That's the catch. Not related to what _you_ do at Google, but related to _anything_ that Google does. Pretty much all the stuff I wanted to work on in my spare time while employed at Google could be seen as related to Google's business/research, as Google does a lot of things. And that's how Google seems to read this too, considering how the Open Sourcing documentation [1] is written.
[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20210710210932/https://opensourc... “As part of your employment agreement, Google most likely owns intellectual property (IP) you create while at the company. Because Google’s business interests are so wide and varied, this likely applies to any personal project you have. That includes new development on personal projects you created prior to employment at Google.”